More than 100 MEPs have announced their support for granting the London-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported...

UNRWA announced Monday a significant reduction in its international staff, and warned of further “difficult decisions” should serious funding problems not be remedied. In a statement from Jerusalem, UNRWA...

The UN welcomed the “peaceful completion” of the confrontation between the Israeli army and activists on the Freedom Flotilla, the Anadolu Agency reported the deputy spokesman for UN secretary-general...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “deeply concerned” about the health of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan, who is being held by Israel without charge or trial. His “administrative detention”...

A United Nations inquiry into the 2014 Gaza war has accused Israeli and Palestinian factions (including Hamas) of multiple potential violations of international law, including suspected war crimes. The...

Following yet another round of accusations, condemnations and reproach authored by Israel and the UN over Operation Protective Edge, the international body’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Makarim Wibisono,...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday criticised Israel for targeting Palestinian children during its war on Gaza last summer, reiterating his demands for the Israeli government to take urgent...

Syrian authorities asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it convert a nuclear facility and to move potentially dangerous nuclear material abroad, according to agency chief Yukiya Amano....